expurgate

1. V-T If someone expurgates a piece of writing, they remove parts of it before it is published because they think those parts will offend or shock people. (作品出版前因考量内容尺度而做的)删减[正式]

He heavily expurgated the work in its second edition. 在第二版中，他大幅删减了该作品。

2. expurgatedADJ

It was first published in 1914 in a highly expurgated version. 它于1914年首次以大幅删减过的版本发行。